Anna Myers is the vice president of Grocapitus Investments, LLC, teaches underwriting for MultifamilyU, and co-hosts a real estate investor meet-up in the San Francisco Bay area. With an extensive background as a programmer in systems architect in the tech industry, she uses these skills to evaluate multifamily deals, identify key investment markets, and implement systems and processes to acquire and manage multifamily assets. Anna partnered with Neal Bawa to purchase 500 units of apartment projects in 2018, and added another 300 units in the first few months of 2019.
Maneesh is the founder of Pavlok and Shock Clock, helping people change their habits for good. In 2008, Maneesh took a two year break from studying at Stanford to travel and start hackthesystem.com, a travel blog about credit card hacking and digital nomads. In 2012, his article, “Why I Hired a Girl on Craigslist to Slap Me in the Face- And How it Quadrupled my Productivity”, went viral. In 2013, he took that idea to start a company that earned almost 8 figures in revenue over the last several years building devices that use psychology and sensory stimuli to help you change habits and wake up early. That company helped over 75,000 customers wake up in the morning, reduce cravings, quit smoking and defend against distractions, and, therefore, essentially helping people get fitter and healthier.
Vinney Chopra’s success in real estate investment and syndication is a testament to the power of enthusiasm, passion, persistence and positivity. He came to the United States from India over 40 years ago. He had only seven dollars in his pocket, but he knew without a doubt that the opportunities offered by this country were within reach because he had a vision for his life plus the commitment to learn, work hard and sacrifice to achieve his goals. He has successfully completed 27 multifamily syndications over the years, controlling 3500 units valued at $220 million. He also has a new fund for accredited investors who want to invest in multifamily.
Fernando Angelucci is the 27-year-old senior managing partner of Titan Wealth Group based out of Chicago. He first read Rich Dad, Poor Dad when he was 16 and subsequently started his first business at the age of 19 while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When Fernando graduated with a bioengineering AG degree in 2013, he went on to work in a Fortune 50 company and immediately started investing in single family homes on the side. By the age of 23, he was able to replace his income and exit the “9-5” life to begin investing in single family and multifamily properties full time. By 24, he began purchasing value-add self-storage facilities and within two years began pooling funds from his investors to build ground-up, class A self-storage facilities to flip to publicly traded REITs.
Adam started investing in real estate in 2005 after repositioning his first apartment community in 2007 from a $2 million value to a $4 million value in 12 months as a property manager. Adam bought his first multifamily apartment building. Since then, Adam has managed several single family “fix-and-flips” and holds over 100 multifamily rental doors. Adam is the organizer of Colorado’s most active real estate group, and he hosts the "Creative Real Estate Podcast”. Adam has been a guest on countless popular podcasts, including the “Best Ever Show”, “Investor Army”, and the “Investability Podcast”.
Jason Hull’s personal mission statement is to inspire others to love true principles. This means he’s all about figuring out what works and sharing it with others. Jason is the world’s leading property management growth hacker, and enjoys helping property management business owners grow their businesses. He’s the host of the "Door Grow Show", founder of the Door Grow Club, a free Facebook group for property management entrepreneurs, and the creator of The Seed Program: The Ultimate Foundation for Property Management Growth. His mission at Door Grow is to transform property management businesses and their owners.
Zach Beach works with smartrealestatecoach.com, located in Newport, Rhode Island. He works alongside his wife, Kayla, brother-in-law, Nick, father-in-law, Chris, and a great support team. He’s a successful real estate investor, completing over 100 deals in under 3 years and continues to buy and sell property without using his own cash, credit or investor’s money. Zach is co-authoring their second book, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing. At age 25, Zach decided to jump into the family real estate business. It was one of the first big risks he took in his life, and nothing was guaranteed. He didn’t know anything about real estate, so through hard work, in-house training and implementation, Zach has now completed these 100 deals and growing. Additionally, he coaches students around the country on how to buy and sell property just like his family does.
Ian Ippolito is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of the investment analysis website called therealestatecrowdfundingreview.com. The site has over 12,000 visitors per month and has been featured in USA Today, Bloomberg News, Realtor.com, Curbed and more. Ippolito is also the founder of a private investor club for alternative investing, with over 1,300 members and over 1.35 billion in investable assets. In 2001, Ippolito created one of the first remote work websites from an extra bedroom in his house, rentacoder.com, which was later renamed vworker.com. Ippolito grew it to 450,000 users, 15 employees, and 11.1 million in revenue before selling it to freelancer.com for an undisclosed price in the millions. Before that, he created one of the first open-source websites for programmers, planitsourcecode.com. At its peak, the site had 1.5 million visitors per month. Ippolito has been awarded the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Company Award four years in a row, and named to the 100 Most Innovative and Brilliant Companies by Entrepreneur Magazine. Ippolito has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Time, Fast Company, Tech Crunch, CBS News, Fox News and many more.
With a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and appealing solution to the epidemic of chronic pain, Brendon Lundberg co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centers. He combines his mission to change the way chronic pain is treated with deep experience and healthcare management, marketing, business development and sales. Prior to opening the first center in 2014, Brendon played key operational and business development roles for two Portland-area Business Journal and Inc. Magazine growth award-winning companies and was the director of sales and marketing for another Portland-based medical device start-up. Brendon holds a B.S. in Business Marketing and an MBA.
Terry White is a long-time business owner and investor. He’s a graduate of the University of New Mexico and began his career as the controller for the largest title company in New Mexico. In 1987, he started his first business, First Financial Escrow, Inc. Over the years, his business grew until in 1997 he purchased the real estate contract division from the largest bank in New Mexico. October 2017 marked First Financial’s 30th year in business. In 2004, Terry started Sunwest Trust, Inc. to serve the needs of investors that wanted to invest their individual retirement accounts in investments other than what was widely offered. Sunwest is now one of the leading self-directed IRA custodians in the country with assets under custody exceeding $1.5 billion. Along the way, Terry has invested for himself in many areas of real estate and started several other businesses.
Brian Burke is president and CEO of Praxis Capital, Inc., a vertically integrated real estate private equity investment firm, which he founded in 2001. Brian is also a member of the Praxis Investment Committee. Praxis operates on multiple platforms, currently managing active syndications for the acquisition of single, multifamily and opportunistic residential assets in the U.S. growth markets. As a recognized real estate expert, Brian has been a frequent speaker at real estate forums and conferences, including the Opal Family Office & Private Wealth Management forum, the Keiretsu Forum, and the Institute for Private Investors. He has also served as co-host and real estate expert on the Fox News radio show, “The Best of Investing”.
Brian is married and has lived in northern California for over 30 years. An avid aviation enthusiast, he’s a licensed instrument-rated airplane and helicopter pilot.
Lee Kearney is one of the nation’s most active and successful single-family real estate investors, having flipped over 7,000 houses in the last decade, totaling over $500 million in property under his SPIN Real Estate company. Lee is known as the leading expert in understanding and leveraging real estate market cycles. He has been on the front lines of flipping homes, and his passion and expertise come into play as he inspires and educates real estate investors at all levels through his “Flip Your Income” training program.
Ellie Perlman is a real estate investor who owns 2,000 units across the U.S., worth over $250 million. Ellie is the founder and CEO of Blue Lake Capital, a real estate investing firm specializing in multifamily investments. At Blue Lake Capital, Ellie helps investors grow their wealth and get double-digit returns by investing alongside her in large multifamily deals that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to. Prior to founding Blue Lake Capital, Ellie was a commercial real estate lawyer and a property manager. Ellie is the host of the podcast, “That REllie Happened”, which highlights unbelievable real estate stories. She is an author for Forbes and a writer of a weekly blog you can find at ellieperlman.com.
AJ Osborne has been in real estate since the early 2000s. He created Bitterroot Holdings, a self-storage company that has a $100 million asset holding portfolio. He got his start in insurance running one of the largest brokerage firms in the northwest.
Scott Royal Smith is a real estate investor and asset protection attorney in Austin, Texas. He graduated from Albany Law School and began his career in high-stakes corporate litigation. Scott learned the key secret he now uses to defeat lawsuits, that they are a business. Through his defense work, he targets defeating lawsuits before they are even filed by making sure the business part of a lawsuit no longer makes financial sense for a plaintiff to proceed. Scott founded Royal Legal Solutions to offer tax, business and legal strategies to real estate investors. He spent the past 8 years of his career diving through case law, reading the ever-changing tax code, and analyzing real estate investment so that you don’t have to. His claim to fame as an attorney is his uncanny ability to make his clients judgement-proof.
Joe Fairless is a full-time real estate investor that started buying multi-family properties in 2013 and now controls over $400 million of real estate, with a portfolio of over 4200 units. He’s personally raised over $100 million from private investors for real estate investments. Prior to that, he was the youngest VP at an award-winning advertising agency in New York City. He’s the host of the world’s longest running daily real estate iTunes podcast, “Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever,” where he’s interviewed guests such as Barbara Corcoran, Robert Kiyosaki, Emmitt Smith and Tony Hawk.
Scott Meyers is the nation’s leading expert in self-storage. After becoming a penniless landlord in the single-family rental and apartment business, he began investing in self-storage. He saw the light and quickly sold all of his single-family rentals and apartments to create a small empire of self-storage facilities nationwide. His company’s focus on syndicating self-storage deals and helping others to launch their own self-storage business to enjoy a lifestyle free from toilets, tenants and trash.
Scott is the principal in 16 facilities, totaling over 5,000 units and approximately 1 million square feet of storage. He is also the founder and president of selfstorageinvesting.com, a leading self-storage education company that offers courses, live events, mentoring and coaching. His company was started in 2006 for the purpose of acquiring, developing and operating self-storage facilities and has raised over 20 million in syndicates and private equity partnerships to fuel their growth.
Mike Zlotnik has been a debt and equity investor in real estate since 2000. He started his career and has spent nearly 15 years in the IT field, managing risk, business intelligence and software. Mike’s passion has always been real estate investing because of its predictability and well-understood risks. In 2009, he joined Tempo Funding, LLC (Mortgage Pool Fund), as Vice President. In 2014, he assumed the role of CEO. Mike is the author of the book, How to Choose a Smart Real Estate Investment Fund. He also has a podcast called “Big Mike Fund”.
Michael Levitt, with Breakfast Leadership and published author of 369 Days: How to Survive a Year of Worst-Case Scenarios, brings people back to life. He’s focused on helping individuals and leaders within corporations learn boundaries in their work and personal life so they can accomplish more by doing less, which will save them and their careers, and possibly their lives.
Ryan McKenna is the founder of McKenna Capital, which is a private equity firm that helps accredited investors invest in recession-resistant real estate assets. He focuses on value-add multifamily, self-storage and manufactured home parts. Since starting McKenna Capital, Ryan has helped investors allocate capital to over 10 deals, which have a combined asset value of more than $250 million. Ryan has worked with some of the most experienced and well-respected operating partners across the U.S.
Kim Snider has spent 20-plus years as an entrepreneur, options trader, investment advisor, financial engineer, author, speaker, educator and financial talk radio host. Her investment firm, Snider Advisors, was on the Inc. list of “Fastest Growing Companies” 2 years in a row, in 2008 and 2009. Kim retired at 47 and sold her investment firm. In 2011, she moved to South Carolina with her husband and dogs, built a polo farm and planned to lived happily ever after. It all was going well, until Crypto came along. Motivated by the cascade of bad advice she saw pouring out all over the internet, Kim unretired to create Sane Crypto and help baby-boomers get properly positioned for what could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but not get wrecked if it turns out to be a big “nothing-burger”.
Christian Chasmer empowers entrepreneurs to live their best lives and change the world. At 26 years old, this young entrepreneur has already built 2 successful companies and is now working on his 3rd, which is called Elevate Advisors. Starting in college, Christian built a franchise from 0 to 1.2 million in annual revenue, then he co-founded the real estate development company, CC Solutions, and grew it to 6 million in revenue in under 2 years. He’s also the author of the #1 best-selling book, Lose the Limits: Break Your Limiting Beliefs, Become a More Productive You, Achieve Everything You Want in Life. The secret to his success lies in the systems he uses, both in his personal life and his business.
In this episode, Victoria Mavis shares the importance of finding the right people to work with. Don't be too trusting, but don't be jaded either.
Victoria Mavis is a professional magician and podcast host of the show Pure Mind Magic. She is a published author of two books, has two academic degrees and is a consultant when it comes to mindset work. Now - brand new - she is also teaching you on how to deliver amazing podcast interviews worldwide - being prepared like a magician for a great show! Learn more at: www.victoria-mavis.com.
Oren Klaff is one of the world’s leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation, having pitched and closed over $500 million of investor capital in recent years. His first book, Pitch Anything, is required reading throughout Silicon Valley, Wall Street and the Fortune 2000, and has been translated into over 10 languages, with over 1,000,000 copies in circulation worldwide.
Today, Oren teaches leaders and organizations his hard-won real world methods. Additionally, Oren has written for Harvard Business Review, INC, Advertising Age, Entrepreneur and hundreds of periodicals, podcasts and blogs. Oren is an investment partner in a $200 million private equity investment fund. He lives in Southern California with his wife and son, and in his spare time is a motorcycle enthusiast.